Engineer

President John F. Sullivan Jr. of Bath
Iron Works has announced four key appointments
in marketing to accomplish the shipyard's
new-business objectives in naval and
merchant ship construction and overhauls.
Richard W. Thorpe Jr. was promoted to
assistant

National Steel and Shipbuilding
Company (NASSCO), San
Diego, Calif., a wholly owned
subsidiary of Morrison-Knudsen
Company, Inc., announced recently
that it has been awarded a
$5.5-million firm fixed-price contract
by Shell California Production,
Inc.

Edwin J. Roland Jr., a naval
architect and marine engineer,
has been appointed vice president,
technical, of Holland America
Line, Stamford, Conn., parent
company of Holland America
Cruises.
Prior to this appointment he
was vice president of The Coastal
Corporation of Houston,

The quarterly meeting of the
American Society of Naval Engineers,
Southern New England
Section, was held recently in New
London, Conn. Capt. Don Kern,
USN (ret.), chairman of the Section,
presided over the meeting.
The large-scale ocean transportation
of